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Would you like to create videos for use in a flipped classroom library environment? Would it be helpful to incorporate real-time writing, videos, props, or slides in these videos? If you answered yes to both of these questions, consider making lightboard-based videos. This session will describe one institution’s use of lightboard technology for library outreach and a design-based first-year engineering class. Participants will leave understanding lightboard capabilities and best practices, and will brainstorm topics to make lightboard-based videos for use in their instruction sessions.

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Come and experience a new way of learning through Augmented Reality. In this session, participants will use the Blippar App to view interactive portions of the African Poetry Book Fund Exhibit.  The session will demonstrate how AR can be used to  enhance library displays, exhibits, paintings or event publicity through the integration of  videos, audio, or other digital formats. Participants will also discuss practical solutions to the challenges of selecting and using suitable AR platforms.

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Digital pedagogy is an area where learning and teaching is seeing the most change. In courses where there was no prior need for a librarian to be involved, incorporating digital assignments can change that story. This session will describe one such experience, stemming from an innovative workshop which paired faculty interested in digital pedagogy with functional and subject specialists to design digital assignments. Work that had taken place during this workshop became a reality this fall semester for a class, Language and Advertising, where we used video annotation software in development at my university in a new and exciting way.

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Have you ever been frustrated by malfunctioning technology or silence from committee members while stuck in an online meeting? You are not alone. Find out about the experiences of others in virtual committee meetings and suggested solutions for participant engagement and meeting success, based on a survey of virtual committee participants. Learn the most desirable features to look for when selecting an online meeting platform for your library, reasons to justify the budget expense, and what you need to know about training virtual committee chairs.

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One purpose of digital humanities applications is to spark new insights to textual data. This presentation details how Voyant Tools, a free, open source textual analysis tool, can help librarians better understand the teaching & learning and research interests of their departments. I will detail the process of compiling two corpuses and analysing their outputs, then explain some implications of text mining and topic modeling. What are the uses and limits of this approach in liaison work, particularly when librarians lack subject expertise in their liaison disciplines?

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Are you interested in bringing static exhibits to life that allow exhibit items “talk” to visitors? Or enhancing instruction by providing an engaging and innovative way for students to customize their learning experience? In this session, you will learn about cost-effective ways to immerse your library users into multimodal, interactive experiences through augmented reality (AR) using free online tools such as BlippAR. Through AR individuals can add layers of information, social media sources, and a plethora of electronic resources to existing reality to immerse individuals in a participative experience in library exhibits and information literacy instruction.

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Virtual reality, 3-D scanning, Arduino programming, oh my! Over the summer of 2016, the Library at the University designed a new a 575 square foot area with close to 200 tools, a place for students, faculty, and staff to turn their ideas into reality and to get hands-on experience. The new resources allow users to explore the latest in virtual reality, 3-D scanning and modeling, Arduino programming, and wearable technology. The Library created a variety of programs to help market these tools and resources. Two of these programs are the Creative Kick-Start Program and the Learn & Create Workshops.

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In this presentation, we will walk through the collaborative process by which our library/learning commons developed and implemented innovative approaches to anytime, anywhere student-centered support in service to the diverse needs of our students. We will explore how our use of online meeting and web conferencing applications provided a seamless portal to multiple options for students to engage with librarians and other learning commons professionals. We will illustrate how this digital platform supports the diverse learning styles of students and creates a setting that encourages student engagement with the integrated virtual services that will foster student success and retention.

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Commercial library databases are convenient and user-friendly, but what happens when you have a large amount of unique full-text documents that you want to make searchable? Have you ever tried to do a keyword search on a .PDF that is hundreds of pages long? It is an interminably slow process. This presentation will discuss how Chris has utilized open source DocFetcher software and digitized materials from Hathi Trust and the Internet Archive to research a book on Illinois bicycle history. It will also provide a live demonstration of how DocFetcher works in practice. This presentation has practical applications for anyone undertaking large text-based research projects as well as for indexing and searching unique library collections.